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A stylish new neo-Victorian novel uncovers the mystery of a mythical serpent returned from the deeps.
Read MoreMahler's 5th Symphony has no shortage of fine interpretations. Two new recordings join them: one great and the other among the greatest of all time.
Read MoreA young girl in 19th-century Ireland sets off on a dangerous odyssey with her even-younger brother in Paul Lynch's new novel.
Read MoreWilliam Walton is very much an on-off composer. What’s remarkable about this recording is that the performance transcends his shortcomings.
Read MoreA debut novel tackles the volatile issues of gentrification and police brutality.
Read MoreMany readers will find reflections of themselves in the nine stories that comprise Sarah Hall's newest collection.
Read MoreA mysterious machine gives people tattoos that reveal deep oracular truths about themselves - and drives one young man to understand it all.
Read MoreTogether, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and his wife Julia Varady make the love in Schumann’s songs seem somehow less hopeless, and the hope in Mendelssohn less forlorn.
Read MoreThe famous Lizzie Borden axe-murders are 125 years old in 2017, and a new debut novel explores the horrors from the viewpoints of several people directly involved.
Read MoreThe centuries-old rivalry between two families erupts in new tensions during one summer on a small island off the coast of Maine
Read MoreTwo cello concertos, one upbeat, the other pessemistic, make a perfect companions on this new disc.
Read MoreA lavishly-detailed new biography tells the story of the Virginia plantation-owner and early voice for independence from Great Britain
Read MoreMary Shelley's indomitable horror classic gets a sumptuous new annotated edition.
Read MoreThe latest entry in Yale's "Jewish Lives" series is the story of Warner Brothers Studo, by the great film historian David Thomson
Read MoreThe summer months might be lazy and carefree in theory, but in 2017 certain specters loom over even the laziest warm day - in our annual feature, OLM editors and regulars write about political literature.
Read MoreKatherine Heiny's debut novel neatly balances cynicism and warmth in order to portray an unconventional family.
Read MoreDiana Trilling worked in her eminent husband’s shadow; a new biography hints at the toll that took and brings her accomplishments into the light.
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Read MoreA horrific murder in upstate New York creates the choking atmosphere for J. Robert Lennon's new novel.
Read MoreHer remarkable bittersweet memoir reveals Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer as a shrewd anthropologist of wartime America.
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